Publications

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Conference Proceedings and Journal Articles

  • 2026 - Aditya Nayak*, Aditi Vashistha*, Alissa Centivany, and Aakash Gautam. “Appearing Legitimate is Not Enough: Interrogating Synthetic Agents in Representational Processes through a Participatory Design Lens” In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society [AIES-26], October, 2026 (Upcoming) Accepted Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.17099

  • 2026 — Aditya Nayak, Aakash Gautam, and Rama Adithya Varanasi. “Concerns and Strategic Responses of Older Workers Navigating Generative AI in Bridge Employment.” In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ‘26), Article 17, 1–16. Association for Computing Machinery. DOI: 10.1145/3808045.3808070

  • 2025 — Prerana Khatiwada, Alejandro Ciuba, Aditya Nayak, Aakash Gautam, and Matthew Louis Mauriello. “Regulating Social Media: Surveying the Impact of Nepali Government’s TikTok Ban.” Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 9, 7, Article CSCW467. DOI: 10.1145/3757648

  • 2021 — Aditya Nayak. “Socio-Political Implications of Data-Centric AI and the Need for Trans-Disciplinary Framework — Studying the Big Digital-Eyes for Autonomous Vehicles.” Journal of AI Humanities 9 (December 2021), 79–98. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.9.4

  • 2021 — Aditya Nayak. “Affective Labour in the Age of Algorithms and its Political Implications.” Journal of AI Humanities 8 (August 2021), 11–24. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.8.1

  • 2021 — Aditya Nayak. “Boredom, Time-Perception and Algorithmic Governmentality.” Journal of AI Humanities 7 (April 2021), 11–24. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.7.1

  • 2020 — Aditya Nayak. “Mental-Health and A.I. — A Paradigm of Human Mechanisation.” Journal of AI Humanities (October 2020), 33–51. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.6.2

  • 2020 — Aditya Nayak. “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Changing Forms of Work.” Journal of AI Humanities (April 2020), 57–76. DOI: 10.46397/JAIH.5.3

  • 2019 — Aditya Nayak. “Deep Learning — Shifting the Telos from Singularity to Perception.” Journal of AI Humanities 4 (October 2019), 81–99. DOI: 10.46397/jaih.4.4

Conference Presentations

  • 2026 — Aditya Nayak, Abdulaziz Alotaibi, and Aakash Gautam. “From Distrust to Relationality: Designing a Web Platform for Centering Community Experiences in Public-Sector AI.” Participatory AI Research and Practice Symposium (PAIRS’26). pairs.site

  • 2025 — Aditya Nayak*, Ashique Ali Thuppilikkat*, and Aditi Vashistha*. “Delivering Inequality: Marginality in Quick Commerce Digital Labour Platforms.” In Caste and Technoscience Panel. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

  • 2025 — Aditya Nayak, Aditi Vashistha, and Aakash Gautam. “Birth of Synthetic Agents: From ‘World as Language’ to ‘Agency as Language.’“ In Chat Token Vector: Questioning Models of Language and Neo-Structuralism. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Hosted by European Research Commission project AI Models and Cambridge Digital Humanities. Conference site

  • 2024 — Aakash Gautam and Aditya Nayak. “Reconfiguring Participatory Design to Resist AI Realism.” In Participatory AI for Community Engagement (PACE 2024) Workshop. Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2024), Pittsburgh, PA. Workshop site

  • 2023 — Aditya Nayak. “Datafication of Politics: Studying Political Consultancy in India.” International Symposium on Democracy in the Times of Digital Transformation, Academic Writing Lab, IIIT-Delhi, November 16–17.

  • 2021 — Aditya Nayak. “Boredom and Algorithmic Governmentality.” 4th International Conference for Artificial Intelligence Humanities (ICAIH 2021), Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. October 2.

  • 2020 — Aditya Nayak. “Mental Health and A.I.” 3rd International Conference for Artificial Intelligence Humanities (ICAIH 2020), Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. December 8–14.

  • 2019 — Aditya Nayak. “Online Gaming and Violence: ‘Disinhibition Effect’ and The Spirit of the Mask.” International Conference on ‘Games and Literary Theory’, Presidency University, Kolkata. November 15–16.

  • 2019 — Aditya Nayak. “Content Creation, Post-Truth Age and the Power of Persuasion.” International Conference on ‘Affects and Their Vicissitudes in the Post-digital Age’, Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” University of Warsaw, Poland. October 24–25.

  • 2019 — Aditya Nayak. “Deep Learning: Shifting the Telos from Singularity to Perception.” 2nd International Conference for Artificial Intelligence Humanities (ICAIH 2019), Seoul, South Korea. August 14–15.

Workshops & Sessions Organized

  • 2026 — “From Barriers to Bridges: Infrastructuring AI Literacy for Civic Inclusion.” Open Panel organiser, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S 2026).

  • 2025 — “Principles and Performance Metrics Makerspace.” Workshop volunteer, ACM EAAMO — Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization. Coordinated the “AI Procurement” table.

  • 2025 — “Powering Progress through Data.” Workshop volunteer, PRJS 2025, organized by Centre for Analaytical Approaches to Social Innovation (CAASI), Univ. of Pittsburgh.

  • 2025 — “Diagrammatic Technique for Co-Design in Academic Research.” Winter School in Science and Technology Studies (STS), organized by IIT Delhi and STS-India Network.

  • 2023 — “Escape, Technology and Method.” Module Coordinator, Tractus-Politico-Technologicus: Machine, City, Disorder. [Drawing on writings of Bruno Latour, Rosi Braidotti, Carl Mitcham, Norbert Weiner, Noel Gough, David Graeber & David Wengrow, Pablo Sendra, and Richard Sennett.]

  • 2019 — “A Time for Love: A Panel Discussion on Temporality and Love.” Panel co-organiser, JNU. Panelists: Prof. Nivedita Menon, Vikram Aditya Sahai, and Dhiren Borisa.

Invited Talks & Panels

  • 2025 — “Technology, Information Economy, and the Rise of Populist Narratives.” Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), University of Delhi. 28 March.

  • 2024 — “Ethics of AI in Education: Balancing Innovation and Privacy Concerns.” National Conclave on AI and Ethics: Perspectives from Industry and Academia, India International Centre (IIC). 20 February.

  • 2023 — “The Moving Image: Addressing Violence, Reframing Peace.” WISCOMP (Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace). 5 December.

  • 2023 — “A.I. Diplomacy: Navigating the Future Together.” India-UK Youth Forum, Global Youth. 22 April.

  • 2023 — “India-Japan Relations: Growing Capabilities in QUAD and Beyond.” Indo-Pacific Quad Council, Global Youth Annual Summit. 28 April.

  • 2022 — “A.I. and The Future of Geopolitics.” Department of Political Science, Lady Shri Ram College (LSR), University of Delhi. 15 September.

Jury Panels

  • 2023 — Jury Panel, India-Japan Youth Forum, Inter-college debate on “Etiquettes in the Modern World,” Global Youth.

  • 2023 — Jury Panel, Mantiq, Inter-college Research Paper Presentation, Sabab Academic Journal, Dept. of Political Science, LSR.

  • 2023 — Jury Panel, Turncoat Inter-College Debate Competition, Department of Journalism, LSR.